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Kastriot, Albania

municipal unit in Dibër, Albania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ2625195 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kastriot (Albanian definite form: Kastrioti), also known as Vakuf (definite: Vakufi), is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the Dibër Municipality. The population at the 2011 census was 6,200.

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“Kastriot, Albania” enters the record as municipal unit in Dibër, Albania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kastriot, Albania and municipal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kastriot, Albania and municipal.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2625195. VIAF identifies the subject as 5146150203824303250001. Authority coordinates are 41.717, 20.383. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kastriot, Albania” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.